SIRI Practicum Student Reflections
In their own words, students share their reflections on their SIRI Practicum experiences!
This semester, I am working in the philanthropy and catalytic capital sector, examining how philanthropic resources interact with policy frameworks, demographic change, and private capital markets...
One of the first events I attended at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2024 was a discussion on the upcoming Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, led by Professors José Antonio Ocampo and Daniel Naujoks...
When it comes to sustainability, social responsibility, and impact investing, they sometimes feel like ambitious ideas to me. Can these visions really be put into practice?
I want to focus on carbon credit risk assessment because it is a critical—yet often overlooked—link between impact storytelling and real investment decision-making...
When I wrote my first reflection blog post at the beginning of the semester, the dilemmas I faced, such as intergenerational equity, short-termism, and global divides, felt theoretical and far away from the day-to-day realities of investment decisions. However, through our practicum project on longevity, these abstract questions became deeply practical...
When I wrote my first reflection, I was just beginning to understand the practical meaning of 'impact'...
When I wrote my first reflection, I was just beginning to understand the practical meaning of 'impact'...
Over the past semester, my understanding of sustainable investing has evolved from a relatively intuitive idea - 'investing with impact' - into a multi-layered system of incentives, market expectations, and real-economy effects...
When people hear the phrase sustainable investing, they often picture wind farms, electric buses, or climate-labeled bond issuances...
Over the past few weeks of the SIRI practicum, I have been grappling with a serious existential question about money, which ultimately has become the basis of our research. The question is why humans have given value - and perceived value - to something as abstract as a piece of paper.
Over the past few weeks of the SIRI practicum, I have been grappling with a serious existential question about money, which ultimately has become the basis of our research. The question is why humans have given value - and perceived value - to something as abstract as a piece of paper.
When I started the SIRI Practicum class, I expected to dive headfirst into sustainable finance tools such as concessionary loans, technical assistance, and green bonds, and how they can mobilize capital toward climate and development goals...